Smart Thermostats

Your thermostat can’t see you leave the house. What it can do is ask your phone. That’s the entire premise behind geofencing – a virtual boundary drawn around your home. Your phone reports when you… 

Your programmable thermostat does exactly what it’s supposed to. It sits on the wall, holds whatever temperature you last set, and asks nothing of you in return. The question isn’t whether it works. It’s whether… 

You pull your old thermostat off the wall, ready to upgrade, and count the wires. There’s an R wire, a W wire, a G wire – but no C wire. The smart thermostat box sitting…